Birth of the Cool: Beat, Bebop, and the American Avant Garde Hardcover - 2001
by Lewis MacAdams
Following a frenetic swing-era "cool revival" and stamped with the unique sensibility of poet-author Lewis MacAdams, "Birth of the Cool" gives a cultural history of the American underground in the '40s and '50s, and of the artists at its core: Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, William Burroughs, and others. 66 photos.
First line
In 1949 and 1950, a black, twenty-one-year-old trumpet player from East Saint Louis named Miles Davis, and a white, thirty-seven-year-old big-hand arranger from Toronto named Gil Evans, working out of Evans's windowless basement apartment behind a Chinese restaurant on Fifty-fifth Street in Manhattan, created a new kind of music-brass accented and smooth; then suddenly jagged and cut-to-the-chase, with in-a-hurry titles like "Boplicity" and "Move."
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- Title Birth of the Cool: Beat, Bebop, and the American Avant Garde
- Author Lewis MacAdams
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Free Press, New York
- Date 2001-02-05
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780684813547 / 0684813548
- Weight 1.27 lbs (0.58 kg)
- Dimensions 9.63 x 6.42 x 0.96 in (24.46 x 16.31 x 2.44 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Library of Congress subjects Avant-garde (Aesthetics) - United States -, Bop (Music) - United States - History and
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00048253
- Dewey Decimal Code 700.973
Media reviews
Citations
- Brill's Content, 03/01/2001, Page 115
- Entertainment Weekly, 02/23/2001, Page 157
- New York Times, 02/04/2001, Page 13
- Publishers Weekly, 12/11/2000, Page 70
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